Quotes About Desire

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

The Principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but it is perceived by the man who desires perception.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.

Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.

Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!

Some men hunger so much for love that they lose everything that is loveable about them.

A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A sick man is content with thestocking.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.